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Easily relocate items accidentally thrown away in the operating room with the retrieval system called SORT (Search Operating Room Trash).

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Barrier protection breakdown. What if your drapes, gowns, gloves and wraps don't protect you as they should?

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Behind Closed Doors: My recovery from total knee replacement. Grueling physical therapy makes surgery seem like the easy part.

Financial Management: This GI center minds its business. The business office and the clinical team at the Seaford (Del.) Endoscopy Center run a tight ship.

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Editor's Page: Don't flip your lid over surgeons in skullcaps. The iconic symbol of surgery is at the center of a dress-code dustup.

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Patient Safety: Constantly striving for zero patient harm. Staff at The Valley Hospital in New Jersey will do everything possible to protect those in their care.